Lee Reilly

Lee Reilly‘s work has won recognition from Writers at Work, the Barbara Deming Fund, Hunger Mountain, and other arts organizations. Recent flash pieces have been published in SmokeLong Quarterly , The Flexible Persona , Minerva Rising, and Quarter After Eight. Twice nominated for a Pushcart, she’s published two nonfiction books. She is an eldercare worker and has just completed a memoir.

“You dazzle me,” my father Lee wrote to Flossi Banks in late 1945. “Whenever I look into your green-flecked eyes—mmm, there I go again.” Such passion, such openness. This man was unrecognizable. “Should I close this with…’my heart beats like an a-bomb?’” In response there were a few distant letters from Flossi, the Ivy League lady who raised me and… Read more →